Mother's Ruin

[JanieAllen]

Now an attempt to cancel a gin company.... twitter.com/MothersRuinE17/status/1552575694311460866

If there's one thing feminists really love, it's being told to 'lighten up'. Might be 2nd favourite phrase coming in just after 'calm down, dear'.

Several G&Ts down, children dutifully neglected, prostitution considered but rejected as a career option. What did I miss?

hurrah! Billy Bragg being a knob... Lionesses winning... the appocalypse coming nearer...

Oh! I need to 'lighten up' and not 'see enemies everywhere' 😆.

From the person who mixed up mockery and celebration (own up, it's because you thought feminists are the enemy) and who thinks GC are hoarding the word mother (spoiler, we know the difference between policy and gin.). Rich.

Oh and you came on here to connect the thread to alcohol induced child neglect. Talk about hostility.

Projecting much?

Just ordered a bottle of sloe gin for a prezzie.

Oh and you came on here to connect the thread to alcohol induced child neglect.

That's literally what 'Mother's Ruin' means.

This is literally what we call irony.

If an Amercan manufacturer of sleeveless white undershirts ironically named 'Wife Beater' retweeted a few Joanna Cherry & Kathleen Stock tweets would you defend them too?

Like Pride is neutral.. 😆

I definitely wouldn't have waited for them to tweet something I don't like before realising they were wife beaters...

I especially won't have BOUGHT the t-shirt because I liked it and then chucked it in the bin NOT because of the name or insinuations but because they said something I disagreed with.

And then come to another group to tell them their associations are unrespectable...

Just fyi the "Old Tom Gin" produced by Mother's Ruin is absolutely cracking stuff. Totally recommended.

I have happy memories of, pre-covid, visiting the Mother's Ruin Gin Palace and very slowly working my way through one of their tasting menus. Only been once (don't often go that part of London) but would happily go again.

I'm sold as soon as I get more dosh I'm doing an order for the winter gloom

Oh my, I didn't realise the Mother's Ruin Gin Palace was an actual place, with tasting menu, rather than Mumsnet fever-dream.

And it's only an hour away, hmmm

There's a photo upthread or a link to one: it looks very festive.

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus I shall report back

Why would a business type account be liking anti trans type tweets in the first place?!

They didn't. There was nothing anti-trans in that tweet.

@GoodJanetBadJanet I'm not a TRA though. Is that what were calling anyone with an alternate view to the majority on here now?

I agree. I don't think the ploppers who come on here to make spurious non-sequiteurs are remotely interested in Trans Rights but TRA ia what a lot of them call themselves, so it's a common catch all term. I prefer Genderist. What would you prefer to use to refer to the belief that women's rights are transphobic?